Doggy Paddling
by Casey Fiesler
Originally published in the Volume 1, Issue 2 omnibus.
“Why am I here?”
Jeremy, too shocked to form a coherent response, just blinked down at Benjy.
For Jeremy, dogs conjured up a set of expectations.  Eating, sleeping, playing, perhaps fetching the occasional newspaper, chewing on the odd slipper.  Therefore, he assumed that their mental lives […]

Winner, Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Novel in the 2008 Preditors and Editors Reader’s Poll.
Take hard science fiction, add a dash of sociology, a smidgen of satire, and a collection of misfits amongst misfits, and you have Slow Train to Arcturus by Eric Flint and Dave Freer. Slow Train is the most hopeful hard science […]

The Angels of St. Ambrose
By C. Mitchell O’Neal
Originally published in the Volume 1, Issue 2 Omnibus.
Under the African sun, Thomas played hide and seek with Juma and Kibibi, his favorite cousins. Juma leaned against the well house wall and counted, skipping numbers, as Thomas and Kibibi scattered in opposite directions through the dusty paths of […]